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Professor Rosenbaum argues that Spenser sought to rehabilitate Merlin to conform to Protestant doctrine, distancing him from Catholicism so that he could support Elizabeth’s Protestant genealogy as a “godly magistrate”

Genealogies of “reason”, “utility”, and “knowledge”. Humanism and the Scientific Revolution.

Melanie Lo. University of Colorado Boulder. Throughout The Faerie Queene, Spenser melds the overarching narrative of his knights’ quests with distinctly non-poetic forms such as chronicles, genealogies, and prophecy. ... This description foregrounds

My interests are driven by two overarching aims: to forge alternate genealogies and critical frameworks for eighteenth-century literatures by practicing reading in global terms that account for the significance of

Multiple, competing lexical genealogies might well be allowed to share space in an argument (or a poem), and even an avowedly spurious etymology could be valued for its aptness.

ii]. For an excellent genealogy of the word ecology that models early modern discourses as an archive of proto-ecological thinking, see Peter Remein, The Concept of Nature in Early Modern ... I am grateful to Timothy Morton for this reference. In Spenser

The Limelight of the Idols” thus bridges the gap between two kinds of genealogies of modernity employed by literary historians.

She begins with a rewarding chapter in which she proposes that the genealogies of Christ, being both kingly and genetic/dynastic, were the model for the chronicles read by, respectively, Arthur

Spenser enjoys a similar freedom when he weaves together mythography, chronicle history, genealogy, and natural history.

James Gabrillo and Nathaniel Zetter, eds., Articulating Media: Genealogy, Interface, Situation (Open Humanities Press, 2023).